Improved clothes-wringer



UNITED STA-TES PATENT OFFICE.

VILLIAM GIBB AND ROBERT J. BELL, OF CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVED CLOTH ES-WRINGER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,827, dated April 11862.

To all whom t may concern: 4

Be it known that we, VILLIAM GIBB and ROBERT J. BELL, both of Carlisle,in the county of Cumberland and State of Pennsylvania, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Clothes-W'rin gers; and we do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making apart of this speciiication, in which- Figure l is a front elevation ofour invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twoigures.

This invention relates to an improved clothes-wringer of that classwhich are pro vided with two rollers, between which, while underpressure, the clothes or other articles are passed and thereby relievedof their moisture.

The object of the invention is to obtain a machine which can be readilyapplied to tubs or other articles of different thicknesses and fastenedon each with equal firmness.

To this end the invention consists in arranging the expressingrollers inthe upper ends of two frames and attaching the same together byadjustable box strap hinges, whereby the machine is adapted to fit withequal tightness tubs or other supports of different thicknesses and toembrace or clamp the same with a pressure exactly corresponding withthat of the rollers on the clothes or other articles, as will behereinafter fully eX- plained.

To enable others skilled in the art to fully understand and constructour invention, we will proceed to describe it.

A A represent the usual elastic expressingrollers, fitted to revolveupon their axes in the upper ends of two frames B B', which are eachcomposed of two wooden uprights united together by suitable cross bars,the lower ends of said uprights forming jaws or clamps, whereby themachine is fastened to any suitable support to adapt it to use. Theinner faces a a of the jaws are formed with a con- Vex or rollingsurface, so as when put upon the sides of a tub or other support to morereadily adjust themselves to a proper bear ing. The jaws of the uprightswhich comn pose the stationary frame have a shoulder l;

formed at their juncture with the convex surfaces, which rests on theupper edge of the tub or other support and prevents the machine fromsinking more on one side than the other. l

On the two opposite sides of the uprights of the stationary fra-lne Bmetallic plates c are embedded in the wood and fastened by screws, orthey may be in any other suitable manner. These plates have notches cutin their opposite edges corresponding with channels formed in the innerand outer sides of the uprights for the purpose of sustaining box-strapsC, which embrace the uprights and have attached to their outer ends bypivots e the uprights of the adjustable frame B. Set-screws d, fitted towork through nuts formed in the heads of the box-straps, act against themetallic plates on the outer sides of the uprights of the stationaryframe and serve to draw the two frames nearer together or move themfarther apart, as may be desired, to adapt the machine. to fasten ontubs or other articles of different thicknesses. The axle of the rollerA inthe stationary frame protrudes through one of the uprights toreceive a winch D, whereby a rotary motion is imparted to its roller,and through it to the roller in the adjustable frame.

The operation is as follows: The peripheries of the rollers beingpressed together, the setscrews are turned in one or the other directionuntil the space between the jaws or f lower ends of the frames is equalto the thick-` ness of the tub or other article on which it is desiredto fasten it, when the machine is supported at a proper height thereonby the shoulders of the uprights of the stationary frame resting on thetop edge of the tub or other support. now being passed between therollers are relieved of their moisture without injury to l them. Byturning the set-screws d in one or Vthe other direction the pressure ofthe rollers may be so regulated as to work with equal efficiency on thefinest or coarsest fabrics. The tendency of the articles in passingbetween the rollers is to spread the upper ends of the frames apart andto contract the lower ends, thus causing the latter to more rmly grip orclamp the support and thereby give greater firmness and rigidity to themachine.

The clothes or other articles The above-descritaedimprovement is simplein its construction, inexpensive, and not liable to easily get out oforder.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

Attaching together the frames of a clothes- Wringer by an adjustablebox-strap hingejoint, whereby they may be adjusted to tit tubs or othersuitable supports of dilerent thicknesses and to clamp the same with adegree of pressure regulated by and corresponding With that of therollers on theY clothes, substantially as hereinbefore described.

WM. GIBB. ROBT. J. BELL. Witnesses:

JAs. C. JEFFERY, Jos. C. HALBERT.

